Best barrier cream for legs

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Our fields (like most peoples I imagine) are wetter than they usually are this year and my pony has mud fever for the first time. Caught it early and it's just under his fetlocks. He's been in for a week and is happy enough and doesn't seem sore any more but I'd like to get him back out for a few hours a day at least for his sanity, at some point he's going to get bored.

I used baby oil last year but he had an allergic reaction to it after a few days of using it and his legs swelled to almost twice the size and most of his hair fell out on his back legs where I'd used it. So since he's clearly super sensitive (who gets a reaction to baby oil anyway?) he needs something that doesn't have the same ingredients in. It has to be something that I can use quite far up his legs as the mud is deep. Sudocrem is good but I don't want to put that too far up his legs because it's a pain to try to wash off when he doesn't need it anymore.

Any suggestions welcome :)
 
I have heard of people using udder cream, it is cheap and comes in big tubs. I have used pig oil in the past but this could cause the same reaction as the baby oil.
 
I'm sure the local country wide must do udder cream, i'll have a look later. I thought about pig oil but like you I think it could cause the same reaction.
 
Good old fashioned Vaseline or other similar (lots of own brands around these days, really cheap and effective). Buy a small tub to begin with in case he has a reaction to that too?
 
Baby oil is perfumed so bad reactions to it don't surprise me.
I use Equimins Tea-tree mist, sprayed daily on my full-feathered (but now clipped) mare. Combined with changing from haylage to hay this seems to be working and we are sloshing around in mud up to at least our knees.
 
Cow slave very cheap and works wonders, it is like vasaline and contains germaline anteseptic so smells fab has well, it also healed my hands upwhen they was cut and cracked!! its used for cows hudders when they become sore from milking xx
 
I'm using sainsburys fragrance-free baby oil and adding 1/3 small bottle tea tree to a 300ml bottle of baby oil. Seems to be working a treat, scabs have gone and legs looking much less pink and sore
 
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